Scott City
Three men and a woman began the Town
Company and laid out a town site by March of 1885. Mrs. DeGeer,
Mr. Swan, Mr. McLain and Mr. Case each donated 40 acres to begin
the town site which was known as Scott Centre. It later became
Scott and finally became known as Scott City in 1913.
The Town Company filed a charter on
September 11, 1885. More than 50 buildings were built in the 90
days afterwards. The Town Company offered a free lot to anyone
that would build on it. They also donated lots for the first church
in Scott City to be built; the Methodist Church was built in 1886.
By 1902, Scott City had a bank, four general stores, a high school,
a drug store, a lumber yard, an opera house and several churches,
along with the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe rail lines.
The ethnicity of its settlers is not
known.
Sources
History of Early Scott County
by the Scott County Historical Society, Inc., 1977
Scott County, Kansas Centennial Book - Celebrating 100 Years:
1886-1986 by the Scott County Centennial Commission, Inc., 1986.
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